Digital Resilience: Navigating Disruption and Safeguarding Data Privacy

Shishir Kumar Shandilya, D.Sc., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Data Science and Forecasting at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (University) Indore in India. He is also a Visiting Professor at Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom. He is a Cambridge University-certified professional teacher and trainer, a TEDx speaker, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a senior member of IEEE. Shandilya is a NASSCOM-certified master trainer for security analysts in SOC (SSC/Q0909: NVEQF Level 7). He has received the IDA Teaching Excellence Award for distinctive use of technology in teaching by the Indian Didactics Association in Bangalore (2016) and the Young Scientist Award for two consecutive years, 2005 and 2006, from the MP Science Congress and the MP Council of Science and Technology. He is a highly regarded author, with published research works from reputable academic publishers such as Springer, IGI-USA, River Denmark, and Prentice Hall of India. Shandilya alsohas international and national patents and copyrights granted for adaptive cyber defense methods. His research interests include adaptive defense, advanced digital investigation and forensic methods, explainable artificial intelligence, privacy-preserving computing, nature-inspired cryptography (NIC), and nature-inspired cyber security (NICS).

Agni Datta, cryptologist at SECURE - Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security and a cybersecurity researcher who specializes in theoretical computer science at VIT Bhopal University in India. He is a member of several prestigious professional associations, including the ACM, IEEE, AMS, and SIAM. His research interests include various cryptographic primitives like zero-knowledge proofs, multiparty computation, and lattice cryptography. He is particularly focused on security primitives for computing, as well as computational complexity and probabilistic proofs.

Yash Kartik, security researcher at SECURE - Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security at VIT Bhopal University in India. He is affiliated with esteemed organisations, such as SIAM, ACM, IEEE, and AMS. His research focuses on security methods such as cyber security for space systems, anonymous networking, and cyber resilience. He also has a keen interest in cryptographic primitives like zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption.

​Prof. Atulya K. Nagar, D.Phil., holds the Foundation Chair as Professor of Mathematical Sciences and is Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is also head of the School of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering, which he established at the university. He is an internationally respected scholar working at the cutting edge of theoretical computer science, applied mathematical analysis, operations research, and systems engineering. He received a prestigious Commonwealth Fellowship topursue his doctorate (D.Phil.) in Applied Nonlinear Mathematics, which he earned from the University of York (UK) in 1996. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons.), an M.Sc., and an M.Phil. (with distinction) in Mathematical Physics from the MDS University of Ajmer, India. His research expertise spans both applied mathematics and computational methods for nonlinear, complex, and intractable problems arising in science, engineering, and industry.